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The Land Beyond the Forest

by Emily Gerard

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Chapter I — Introductory
  3. 3Chapter II — Historical
  4. 4Chapter III — Political
  5. 5Chapter IV — Arrival in Transylvania — First Impressions
  6. 6Chapter V — Saxon Historical Feast — Legend
  7. 7Chapter VI — The Saxons: Character — Education — Religion
  8. 8Chapter VII — Saxon Villages
  9. 9Chapter VIII — Saxon Interiors — Character
  10. 10Chapter IX — Saxon Churches and Sieges
  11. 11Chapter X — The Saxon Village Pastor
  12. 12Chapter XI — The Saxon Brotherhoods — Neighborhoods and Village Hann
  13. 13Chapter XII — The Saxons: Dress — Spinning and Dancing
  14. 14Chapter XIII — The Saxons: Betrothal
  15. 15Chapter XIV — The Saxons: Marriage
  16. 16Chapter XV — The Saxons: Birth and Infancy
  17. 17Chapter XVI — The Saxons: Death and Burial
  18. 18Chapter XVII — The Roumanians: Their Origin
  19. 19Chapter XVIII — The Roumanians: Their Religion, Popas, and Churches
  20. 20Chapter XIX — The Roumanians: Their Character
  21. 21Chapter XX — Roumanian Life
  22. 22Chapter XXI — Roumanian Marriage and Morality
  23. 23Chapter XXII — The Roumanians: Dancing, Songs, Music, Stories, and…
  24. 24Chapter XXIII — Roumanian Poetry
  25. 25Chapter XXIV — The Roumanians: Nationality and Atrocities
  26. 26Chapter XXV — The Roumanians: Death and Burial — Vampires and Were-…
  27. 27Chapter XXVI — Roumanian Superstition: Days and Hours
  28. 28Chapter XXVII — Roumanian Superstition — Continued: Animals, Weathe…
  29. 29Chapter XXVIII — Saxon Superstition: Remedies, Witches, Weather-Makers
  30. 30Chapter XXIX — Saxon Superstition — Continued: Animals, Plants, Days
  31. 31Chapter XXX — Saxon Customs and Dramas
  32. 32Chapter XXXI — Buried Treasures
  33. 33Chapter XXXII — The Tziganes: Liszt and Lenau
  34. 34Chapter XXXIII — The Tziganes: Their Life and Occupations
  35. 35Chapter XXXIV — The Tziganes: Humor, Proverbs, Religion, and Morality
  36. 36Chapter XXXV — The Gypsy Fortune-Teller
  37. 37Chapter XXXVI — The Tzigane Musician
  38. 38Chapter XXXVII — Gypsy Poetry
  39. 39Chapter XXXVIII — The Szeklers and Armenians
  40. 40Chapter XXXIX — Frontier Regiments
  41. 41Chapter XL — Wolves, Bears, and Other Animals
  42. 42Chapter XLI — A Roumanian Village
  43. 43Chapter XLII — A Gypsy Camp
  44. 44Chapter XLIII — The Bruckenthals
  45. 45Chapter XLIV — Still-Life at Hermanstadt — A Transylvanian Cranford
  46. 46Chapter XLV — Fire and Blood — The Hermanstadt Murder
  47. 47Chapter XLVI — The Klausenburg Carnival
  48. 48Chapter XLVII — Journey From Hermanstadt to Kronstadt
  49. 49Chapter XLVIII — Kronstadt
  50. 50Chapter XLIX — Sinaïa
  51. 51Chapter L — Up the Mountains
  52. 52Chapter LI — The Bulea See
  53. 53Chapter LII — The Wienerwald — A Digression
  54. 54Chapter LIII — A Week in the Pine Region
  55. 55Chapter LIV — La Dus and Bistra
  56. 56Chapter LV — A Night in the Stina
  57. 57Chapter LVI — Farewell to Transylvania — The Enchanted Garden

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